GRE Word List
PENDULOUS
poised without visible support
The meaning of the word pendulous is poised without visible support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| microcosm | a little world |